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A representative from World Relief, the organization that helped Syrian refugees come to North Carolina and Georgia, said governors are making the wrong decision.

"I think it's a mistake to stop the resettlement of carefully vetted refugees. And many of them have been in this process of seeking resettlement for years,” said Matthew Soerens, U.S. director for church mobilization of World Relief.

Soerens said the organization has confidence in the current vetting process.

The State Department said on average it could take 12 to 18 months for a refugee to get approval to come to the U.S., but some applications could take longer.

The FBI, Homeland Security and the Department of Defense are some of the agencies involved in the security/clearance process. Refugees are interviewed, given criminal checks and medical screenings by government officials.

"World Relief has resettled more than 260,000 refugees from a broad range of countries and none of them have been terrorists,” said Soerens.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said he knows very little about the dozens of Syrian refugees allowed in the state over the past couple of years.

Soerens said, "We know their names, we know their middle names, we know their dates of birth, we know their education, we know their language ability and we knew that even before they arrived."

McCrory said the concern is that some of the terrorists could pose as refugees to get into the U.S.

Soerens stressed that the refugees resettled in North Carolina are Muslim and Christian and he isn’t concerned about them being a security threat.

“For someone whose experience with the government in the past has been with a very harsh, violent government and have been really traumatized by the experience, it can instill a lot of fear, which is why a lot of refugees are very afraid right now," he said.

Soerens said World Relief has helped resettle more than 60 refugees in South Carolina from other countries after their Spartanburg office opened in May.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said none of those refugees are Syrian. She said that Syrian refugees aren’t welcome in the state, citing gaps in available intelligence for those fleeing Syria.

Government leaders have provided different answers about their ability to vet Syrian refugees.

FBI Director James Comey said digging up background on Syrian refugees is extremely difficult because the country is in disarray, while U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the government has the necessary resources to vet Syrian refugees looking to flee to the U.S.